Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-05-21
COLLIER. May Is, 1887.


Who will try for the s.. s. prize?
Pleasant, cool days for field laboring.
The darkness downed the singing
school
The Dunkard brethren held services
Sunday afternoon at our school house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Martin spent the
Sabbath with their parents, in Cove
county.
MIR. Fountaine, recently of Florida, ar
rived In Collyer Tuesday. He is pros
pecting for home.
The Collyer w. r. G. will give another
dance Friday evening of this week at the
Post and Corps Hall.
Messrs. Spicer and Swiggett returned
to Wa-Keeney on Monday. Business is
too rushing there to permit rest for the
tailors.
Chas. Thiel has repaired and painted
his cottage recently. He is expecting a
brother and sister to occupy it with him
before long
A. G. Frick, of Wa-Keeney, drove to
Collyer on Saturday, looking for one of
his best teams, which had not been re-
turned to the stable according to agree
ment. dis.
Mills & Sons and NJ p Goodwin now
1>,,c, l.
they are only screen doors, and aid in dis
playing rather than hiding the tempting
goods within.
The Saturday night singing school
prospered finely until the last meeting,
but after Wednesday nights experience
in getting home the young people cared
not to venture forth again on a cloudy
night.
Many of tie old settlers are complain
ing of i'll health this spring, and lack of
vital energy. Especially is this true of
our veteran citizens, who now experience
the effects of both army exposures and
pioneer privations and hardships.
Growing rye may be very good for
focks and herds, but herds and focks I'M
herded are not particularly beneficial to
crops of any kind, and their owners will
save neighborly quarrels by restraining
their wanderings.
Miss M. York unwillingly laid aside
her dignity as teacher to pet much
swollen face, for neuralgia had decided
to abide with her awhile. She came up
from Wa-Keeney Thursday night to rest
at home until recovered.
Ii any one can look at the Landscape
formed by our neat depo in the center of
a thrifty grove of trees, under whose
branches grows fragrant bed of alfalfa,
and not call it pretty, his love of the
beautiful is certainly deficient.
w. l.. Brown, of Collyer is ready to
set new pumps, and in few days will be
prepared to fix and repair old ones He
will soon have on hand stock of pumps
and windmills. Give him your order.
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At the regular meeting of the Collyer
w. G. t. u, last Saturday, Mrs. G. W.
Kessler was unanimously elected dele
gate to the county convention, to be held
at Wa-Keeney May 20. After tue meet
ing, few chosen members distributed
temperance literature by house visitation.
Mr.. Hanson, of Norton county, spent a
few days in western Trego last week in
the capacity of Sunday school mis-
sionary. He lectured. Thursday evening
at Big Creek school house, and made an
appointment to organize Sunday school {
there on the following Sabbath. Il
Boreas' breath on Monday morning
was exceedingly chilling, and reminded ii
one of the several hail-storm seasons of
the past, and which the newer counties
are now enduring. If the emigrants only
considered these things, they would GER
ta1niy not pass Trego's inviting prairies
for lands farther west.
Rev. Weller preached both morning
and evening in Collyer last Sabbath, and
during the afternoon filled his regular .
appointment at the Cass school house, on
the Saline. Catholic services were held
by Father O'Brien in the morning at the
church of that denomination, the closing ;
exercises being in memory of sister of
family of the congregation.
Collyer Union Sunday school last Sab
bath voted to have picnic some time
during the latter part of June next, and {
to offer prize for the most regular at 6
tendance upon the school until that time;
the prize to be given at the picnic. All ,
scholars, whether members of the Bible !,
or infant class, can compete for the prize. !